Helen Souness is a senior executive with a career that spans more than 30 years of leadership experience working in digital strategy, marketing and product and leading a range of digital companies around the world.  As an Executive Helen worked in market-leading companies including O2 and Lonely Planet and ground-breaking marketplaces SEEK where she was Marketing Director, Envato as GM of the marketplaces and Etsy where she was the MD of Asia. 

In her last Executive role, Helen was the founding CEO of online education leader RMIT Online, building it to 150+ people and more than 26,000 enrolments per year. As CEO she spearheaded a suite of Australian-first courses in areas like blockchain, AI, digital marketing and agile delivery, in partnership with over 80 global and local industry partners, including Salesforce, AWS and Thoughtworks, as well as launching market leading accelerated post graduate programs online. 

Helen is now an advisor to government, education providers and digital scale ups with a portfolio of interests including Chair of the Board of Dunedin headquartered edtech Education Perfect, Non-Executive Director of ‘the AirBNB of RVs’, Camplify (ASX: CHL) and a Venture Partner in seed stage venture capital fund Rampersand